skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Few years back in was in a parking garage and the lady in front on me kept pressing on the screen to get her ticket, with increasing power and frustration. It wasn't a touch screen. There were buttons on the side.

That's probably as good of an example of mismatched expectations in UI paradigms as I've ever seen. The buttons are pretty common, pretty obvious, and intuitive, but because the expectations were so different she just missed it.

Something similar sometimes happens with drivers not expecting cyclists: they will look to the left to see if something is coming, but their attention is geared towards "is there a car there?" and they will completely miss the cyclist or pedestrian right there in front view. The famous "people completely fail to see the person in gorilla costume" is another famous example of this.

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I once ran a computer course for older people in the local community centre. This was over 20 years ago when (usually older) computer illiterate people were a bit more common (they still exist, but it's much rarer), and I found very little was "intuitive" for many of them. Windows showing a popup? Or even the taskbar in general? Yeah, good luck trying to explain window management.
An activity log and a to-do list are two very different things. Most of the things in my history I don't want to come back to.
Of course it's technically possible if apple gives in. I just don't think they ever will. I'd love it if they would instead switch to something similar like android where apks have to be signed, apks distributed via the play store are (nowadays) signed by google, but if you distribute it yourself you can just sign it yourself and the only requirement of the signature is that it must be the same for subsequent updates.
I'm afraid to try keywell keyboards since that would drastically limit layout options.

For a split column-stagger kb I can just order a PCB, MCUs, switches, keycaps and after minor soldering it's ready to go.

With concave boards you need a case of non-trivial design.
Content Standards in Design Systems
We are producing more oil in the US than we ever have.
I have similar feelings as GP about Black (probably the most popular python code formatter), which goes by the philosophy that linters should not be configurable because that just moves conversations about styles from the code to which rules to use.
I was also just reading the FTC complaint [1] because this article reads as painfully biased.

And perhaps somebody else can fill in the blanks here, but so far as I can tell, the FTC is not alleging any sort of wrongdoing, but instead filing a complaint against a proposed merger between Exxon and another company, which could enable larger scale constraints on competition. Their evidence are the messages and comments from the head of the to-be-merged company, who made efforts to follow along with OPEC price standards (or even take the lead) as a means of maximizing profit.

Where 'strategic pricing' ends and price fixing begins is not at all clear to me, especially in a field like this where global prices are actively controlled by a price fixing cartel. But it seems to me that the main article is engaging in some extreme speculation, hyperbole, and sensationalism - while presenting it all as matter of fact.

[1] - https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/2410004exxonpio...
There are lots of browser extensions like onetab that allow you to keep as many tabs as you want without having to navigate a mess.
At 7400, that backlog of articles is clearly aspirational, but there's some place where I do want to read about a topic, but only when I'm in the right mood, and I'm not in the mood to read about that topic right now, usually at the start of the day I'm in a more productive mood and by the end I'm not, and so there are different topics to read about at different times of day.
I'm a retired software developer that's worked in just about every healthcare-adjacent industry segment you can imagine with HIPAA compliance being an evergreen issue. I know how this sausage gets made on the back end and let me tell you regardless of what impression has been made to you about compliance and safeguards the reality behind the scenes is always messy. Hundreds of gigs of unanonymized user data lying around on developer machines, getting tossed out accidentally during equipment rollouts, leaky API implementations, half-assed compliance testing, lack of meaningful continuous oversight, vendor services with varying levels of compliance hot-glued together on the back end, outright theft of data, this list is incomplete. I'd recommend a weapons-grade dose of skepticism over any claims of meaningful data privacy as the last 30 years have consistently and comprehensively shown that anything that gets digitized eventually gets outed if there's a financial motivation to do so.
From what I can gather, 160 Wh/kg is currently possible with sodium-ion, maybe even a bit more in the future.
Haha this made me chuckle. I'm a Mexican and couldn't agree more. It's one of those things you have to experience ONCE and that's all.

The cool thing is that if you pay them, you sometimes may be able to ask for a song that you actually like, and they might surprise you. A friend of mine was a mariachi violin player. He liked heavy metal music and played mariachi for money , but his band could cocee stuff like Run to the hills, ace of spades among others.

It's amusing if nothing else.
Same - it seems like a decent, small, example of using gtk4 bindings in rust. These kinds of projects are great particularly for anyone comfortable in C and building up fluency in rust.
makes sense to transition between animations, shouldn't be hard to do
Running joke that if you pick support you'll match in 1 second
I've been waiting for something like this. I've got most of my emails, text messages and social media posts since 1997. One day I'm going to load it all up on something like this.
That was 2013.
My friend in Civ 5 had a fun habit of deploying a citadel right on his boarder with you, because citadels had an extra effect of taking every tile that surrounds them, literally stealing your territory.

He called these "Defensive citadels"

When you start claiming international waters as your own, it is not "well founded paranoia" when others start viewing that as hostile, it is simply being a jackass.
I was watching debate between Robert Sapolsky and Daniel Dennett on free will. Robert pulled the rug out under Daniel's by saying, "Daniel is agreeing with me on the easy cases where it is easy to pin point a failure by a person to his brain tumour but the environment, both internal and external, always determine a person's behaviour in all cases and hence empathy must be extended to all people irrespective of whether we can explain it or not"
These questions are actually ridiculous.

They don't want to hear actual stories - in real life some people are just unreasonable assholes, and the conflict you have cannot be resolved in some MBA style procedure.

What these questions do is push you into being somewhat sociopathic and twisting the truth to tell them what they want to hear.

You'll end up hiring people that are excellent liars that can "navigate social situations".
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These conversations where highly paid software people complain about insanely minor things (the code linter is the worst part of your job??) are actually kind of nice to read, in a funny way.

The privilege of having pixels be the most stressful part of your life... it's actually really nice to read that. Having perspective from hardship is good, and everyone will have at least some perspective at some point in their life when hardship is forced upon them. But hardship in and of itself isn't good. I'm happy it is being completely eradicated from life, at least for some of us.
Also refusing to publish any KPIs
Some people are just dense. It happens. Not everything needs to be designed to accommodate them.
If I really wanted to keep a record of all the sites I've been to for historic reasons like this person there are far easier/better ways to do that. I'd even set it up to download a local copy of the sites I visit so that they'd be there even if the sites went offline.

I have 298 tabs across 8 windows open right now and I can already tell firefox is about to crash at any moment. I go to about:memory and mash the buttons in the "free memory" box to buy some extra time, but eventually firefox goes down in flames and I lose all my open tabs. When it does finally crash Firefox can never restore my tabs, but I blame myself/my settings for that.

When things get to this point where I know firefox will die soon I end up bookmarking them all or even copying each URL into a text document with dreams that I'll go back to them after my browser has been closed and re-opened, but I almost never manage it. At least I have the option I guess and I know that if I ever do I'll find things that are of interest to me. There's just no shortage of other things that are of interest to me online so the newest stuff tends to win out.
Author here! Don't worry, I'm well aware that what I can create currently can't be sold :) what I can currently do is like an MVP in wood, I cut a lot of corners (literally) just to see the thing done, and live with the defects. A client would not live with the defects, they would want something perfect for their money.

I didn't really mean "switching careers" although I see how that can be read that way. I meant more like leaving the current app income stagnate until it goes down, and in that time I would eventually find a more physical job to support me. Not necessarily woodworking.

I watch youtubers that work their asses off to earn thousands of dollars on a piece they've worked months, and like I said there's no undo. A mistake can set you back a lot. I know we have it good in software.

I don't know if I'll ever have the skills to create wood things that I would be able to sell. I'm thinking maybe I could do that with Kavals, there's less expectation and competition there. But furniture.. I don't know, I will probably end up in the same state as with software.
Most charging stations already have lithium batteries installed as a buffer for the grid, and those batteries tend to be safer designs since there's no weight/density penalty for fixed infrastructure. Sodium batteries would just make charging stations cheaper to build.

A lot of people tend to think of the ideal charging station as a gas station, where lots of cars go to quickly add range. But gas stations have large capacity because of their disadvantages. Ideally if they were safe, cheap, and compact, wouldn't you want gas stations everywhere? I'd love to have a gas station at home, in every parking garage, and at every scenic viewpoint on the road. The reason we don't have that is because gas stations emit toxic vapors and have giant tanks of combustible liquid. They need tanker trucks to regularly refuel them. Charging stations don't have those problems, which is why you can make them much smaller and put them almost anywhere. You don't even need a grid connection. Solar + batteries works in places where land is cheap.
The latter, actually. I'd much prefer to stop for five minutes every 2 hours than 30 minutes every 4 hours.
Thousands believe the vaccine implanted mind control chips.

Thousands believe the earth is flat.

Thousands believe their fillings send them person radio transmissions.

Don’t toss the baby out with the bath water. Would it have been better to let everyone die of Covid? Or get debilitating effects of long Covid?

This headline is unnecessarily alarmist.
It's not, to me.

My bookmark list is huge and basically acts as (part of) a knowledge base. Conversely, open tabs are something of a hybrid between a "read this later" and to-do list.

I'm sure there are many other styles of organizing tasks/knowledge, and I would be a bit careful about discrediting what apparently works for other people.

There's borderline cases of working against UI paradigms like using the trash as a folder to store important documents, but I'd argue that this one isn't one of them.
Yeah, that's another thing that neurologist and neurosurgeon told me... all in all last year changed my perspective on medicine and how much we actually know about our bodies :D
Why not one than 72h = auto close?

Maybe add to reading list, close the tab and let it sit in there
Commodore 64 Theremin. (2022)
Cement's basic molecular structure decoded (2009)
Either you generate it yourself or you pay. PG&E is not paying the third party electricity suppliers exorbitant rates, they're just charging enormous amounts for distribution. Without a political change, electricity will continue to be monopolized and extremely expensive.
Those would need to get cycled a lot(many times per day). You might want one for your house if you wanted to charge quickly at home, but for charging stations, I think more realistically they'd have 10x less charging spots if each person was only there 1/10th the time.

So the peak would be the same, but if there were too many customers then sort of like at a busy gas station people would be waiting for a spot rather than waiting for charging to complete.
You can have a market without relying solely on it, that's what we do for many things already. Driving everything through a market is quite a recent development. So no, it's not "the only you can do".
This topic reminded me of the man made floating island: Joyxee Island [0] made from recycled plastic bottles (made from over 100,000 plastic bottles)

[0] https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/joyxee-island
Prioritize tasks, take regular breaks, set boundaries, and practice mindfulness.
Uber, Google Maps, VoLTE, VoWiFi, and eSIM work. You may need to install the sandboxed Google Play Services from the Apps app.

Android Auto is completely disabled as an opinionated security measure.

Google Pay and some banking apps (ones that require Google's Play Integrity API) will not run. GrapheneOS doesn't attempt to spoof these APIs because they are moving towards cryptographic verification [0]. Most apps don't require this check but if they do you are out of luck unless you can get the app developers to trust GrapheneOS's keys.

[0]: https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-gu...
For me the best part was everyone telling us that nothing like this was happening, that something like this wasn't even possible, that corporate greed could NEVER have ANYTHING to do with the price of everything going up.
But, but...muh free market capitalism always leads to the best products supply for the demand...or so we've been told.
Yes, iOS is the only software with 0 days.
On Android there is NetGuard which poses as a (local, running on the phone) VPN and allows you to deny / allow traffic based on process and domain. Works great, no root needed.
There is also the problem of thinking and problem solving at altitude -- we are much worse at it at high elevation compared to at normal elevations!
Not OP, but I think that their concerns are legitimate for the most part. One example they've brought up is that, with root, a single bug in the display server could lead to complete and immediate compromise of the entire device (assuming root access is gated by UI prompts as is common on most rooted ROMs). Additionally, with verified boot, persistent changes to the OS made via root would cause the phone to be unable to reboot, which limits what you can do with root (assuming you still want verified boot). GrapheneOS standards are much higher than on desktop Linux, where root can be acquired as easily as injecting a fake `sudo` into ~/.bashrc.

Basically the idea is that there should be no need for root if everything is nicely gated by permission controls and high-level APIs. If every component of Android were actually well-designed, this idea would have more merit, but unfortunately there are still a few big gaps in what you can do with a rooted versus non-rooted device, e.g. custom firewall rules (which could provide a hotfix for the issue at hand here). When asked to expose more fine-grained firewall control to the end user, the Graphene devs basically responded that it's extremely difficult to set up firewall rules properly such that leaks are impossible [1], which may be true, but I'd like to think it's better than nothing.

Also, because root access would break Android's protection against end user application tampering, that would likely rule out the possibility of GrapheneOS receiving special support from banking apps, which is something they hope to see in the future [2].

Anyway, this particular issue is definitely a bug in AOSP, and will hopefully be resolved promptly. It's being tracked here: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/337961996

[1] https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/4113/6

[2] https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-gu...
Oil industry profits got vaporized by the decline in prices in the aftermath of the shale revolution. Prices fell sharply from 2014 to 2016. So after this, capital discipline became the watchword. That meant they wouldn't overinvest in new wells, keeping supply constrained. While oil futures had some really weird behavior during the lockdowns, the market demand for capital discipline proceeded it.
Every time I hear Rust, I recall True Detective (Rustin Cohle).
If you regularly do the 'bookmark them all in a folder and close them' behavior, you should try Simple Tab Groups.
> job loss after revised job reports are not false

The claim absolutely is [1]. Revisions for 2022 were on average up. Revisions for 2023 were on average down, but only about 10% of the original increase.

> VC raising funds have nothing to do with ecomony. It is rich people moving money among each other

It has a hell of a lot to do with fundraising!

[1] https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cesnaicsrev.htm
You sure? From what I've seen over the years, bookmarks are not a very heavily used browser feature. I think most people don't have more than a few dozen, if they use them at all.
The Limit IP Address Tracking feature is turned on by default and Apple makes it more annoying because it is turned on or off for each WiFi network.

And a simple search shows definitely people annoyed by the exact same symptom of redirected DNS queries and inability to use internal-only DNS entries. https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/uurkqr/limit_ip_addres...
Chrome is actually pretty good at dehydrating and rehydrating tabs on demand these days, at least in my experience.
> involvement of some kind of trust services provider

Marketplace at least in the US has shown that once you have this, the actual cryptography really doesn't matter. All anyone seems to care about seems to be "We are company X and have been doing this business for Y years and here's our standard operating policy. We emailed address A at time T1 and the person reading that email address used our online services to electronically 'sign' the pdf P at time T2."

Everyone trusts Adobe/Dropbox/et al to make that claim, nobody cares about certificates and what not.
I can't believe the candidate ghosting is a thing now
This is what happens when people think that blogs are "the real news".
No it makes so much more sense to introduce nil and then constantly pepper your code with ? (Null-colasecing) Operators everywhere

(Looking at you, jq, though to be fair JSON itself supports null...)
Preparing for such behavioral questions is part of the standard interview prep process. It's always been part of the interview game and it's really not that hard to come up with something you disagreed with someone on, negotiated with, and resolved.

If you don't disagree with your coworkers on some part their technical decisions on a regular basis, then you probably don't review their code

> some disagreements with coworkers over minor things

Handling minor everyday disagreements gracefully is a valuable soft skill
So... the electric company can't become a monopoly because you can spend the money and effort to create your own electric company? How can that not be said for anything anywhere that becomes an obvious monopoly?
Catching floating kelp would be a real concern. I doubt the plan is to spend much time near the surface though.
A hobbyist is an amateur who enjoys the activity. It adds some precision to to what he is looking for, but is still dependent on what you take amateur to mean. Someone "who sucks", but at least enjoys it, is not what he is trying to convey.
I traded crude oil professionally until early 2022 and I remember that was how we justified low domestic production in mid 2021 as well (i.e. "producers think these prices are temporary, so they aren't investing").

In retrospect (and these are all guesses with hazy memory) we probably overestimated the cost of turning an oil well on and off.

But exchanging text messages with OPEC to price-fix is damning. An active right wing party would decry this as foreign interference and communism (where's the free market?). Even ignoring the market impact, how can you let domestic producers collaborate with foreign governments to control such a serious macroeconomic input like this? It's like China paying Intel a bribe to produce worse chips.
> how come we can measure the temperature of the microwave background radiation

Because that's the average temperature over an region not the temperature of a finite point. It's kind of like pressure; it really only makes sense at a macro level where you are averaging over a volume or region. The pressure at a singular finite point will also be zero because that singular infinitely small point will likely be in the empty space that makes up an atom.

The original comment was about scalar fields in which there is a value at every finite point. Temperature and pressure are not good examples of these. A better example would be like a magnetic or gravitational field which would have a specific value at every point in space.
OBS is really pretty straightforward once you get your head around, and it's super flexible. I'd hesitate to even call it overkill, as for simple screen recording you only need to touch a few settings one time. and then it's two clicks for the rest of all time. (One to start recording, one to stop, I even have them keybound).
> The recruiter was confused too for the same reason, and then I realized something: the hiring manager probably never actually read the resume. I believe that they already knew who they wanted to hire for the position

My gut feeling is this happens all the time, more often than we can possibly imagine. They're just "seems" to be so much nepotism and hire-my-buddyism. But of course we can't prove it. When you get rejected for a reason there is no legal requirement that the reason makes sense, is true, or that they even tell you the reason. It just cannot be one of a few very specific enumerated reasons (which usually can't be proven anyway, so a pointless rule), and that's it.
This is just this aspect. One which we can sell as a good aspect. The sinister side is that this same control will be used to manipulate people into all sorts of things, including commercial interests, social interests, economic, etc.

If they can, they will utilize this to mold people, make no mistake. This is kind of a trojan horse to apply some lipstick over this pig.
The burnt-out or laid-off software professionals of today will become the most unconventional generation of artisans in history.